The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-17

BRoxcBo BILL and Red Shirt visited the
House Of Commons the other night in their
war paiut and were presented to Baron de
Worms. who asked them what they thought
Of Parliament Red Shirt replied that he
didn't think much Of Il; that laws were
passed much quicker In America than IN
England.
! II il reported that the Paris exhibition
will be postponed until 1890.
HERMANN, the veteran prestidigitateur,
died at Carlsbad, Germany, recently aged
sixty-six.
NorEs to the amount of &o5, 600 have been
distracted from letters in the mails b.
tween Prague and Vienna
TIE Soudanese Mahdi has decided not to
attack the frontiers Of Egypt as such hos
tilities would only prolong the British 90
cupation.
THE dwelling Of A. Brown was burned ut
Bedford, Ont, the other morning. Four
small children, all under ten years Of age,
persisted in the flames. The parents, with .
baby, barely escaped with their lives.
COPELAND Il MCLAREN, importers and
commission merchants of Montreal, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, 800, 100;
assets, $4,000.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in .
coal pit at Gelteukirchen in Westphalia,
Germany, on the Sth. Fifty-six lives were
lost, the bodies Of forty-four being re-
covered.
EDITOR O'BRrEN sailed on the steamer
Adriatic for England on the Sth.
IT is reported in Canada that the Marquis
of LansdOwne is to be made Duke at the
Queens jubilee.
Cnited ireland, Parnel's organ, urges the
Irish people to further patience. 1t de-
nounces those men who advocate retalia-
ton for the oppression Of the Irish, and
says that such course would undo the
work of Parnell had accomplished during .
decade Of terrible years, and the work to
which Gladstone was devoting the evening
Of his life.
the Government of Honduras has COM
planned to Secretary Bayard of q filibuster-
ing expedition fitting out at Savannah, Ga.
A DISPATCH announces that the Spanish
Sooloo expedition, consisting Of 500 men,
has captured q fortified rebel village on the
island of Tapula. After severe fighting
and heavy losses on both sides, the rebels
submitted.
HENRY B. CLIFFORD has succeeded with
the first mineral and land concession ever
made by the Mexican Government The
tract embraces GO, OOO, 600 acres in the States
of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa on the
Sierra Madres, and was secured under very
favorable terms.
DISPATCHES from Rangoon and Mandalay
report distressing scarcity of food in Up
per Burmah, owing to the total failure OF
the rice and other crops. Relief was being
sent.
THE barber of the White Star steamer
Germanic committed suicide ut sea recent
ly by jumping overheard.
IT is rumored in London that Gladstone
intends, after the Crimes bill has passed to
third reading, to raise the whole question
of the Governments Irish policy.
The British Indian military budget
amounts to g14. Loo, 900. The army consists
of "a, 600 Europeans and l65, 600 natives
The Egyptian cotton crop is reported in
excellent condition with the same acreage
as last year.
The bridge over the Tay in Scotland was
completed on the 10th. 1t cost $3,5OO.OOO
The steamship Acacia, with 9, 600 tons Of
rails for New Orleans, went ashore on the
Nova Scotian coast on the 10th.
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg, Man., says:
'sThe General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of Canada has passed q resolution
congratulating the Provincial Synod of the
Church of England in Canada or its action
looking to the union of the various Canada
evangelical bodies.
BUSINESS failures during the seven days
ended June 9 numbered, for the United
States. $40; for Canada, 81; total, 173,
against $50 the previous week and 200 for
the corresponding week last year.
IT is reported in Bombay that several
regiments of Afghan troops, including two
from Herat, together with the officers, have
deserted, in response to q proclamation of
the Ameer of Bokhara, inviting the enlist
ment of Afghans under Afghan comman-
ders.
A FAMINE is imminent in the city of Nc
shed and throughout the whole province of
Kharassan. The Russians are trying to
prevent the people from emigrating to the
Trans-C Caspian Territories.
A STRONG anti-Semitic movement is re-
ported in Hungary. There was fight in
this connection at Neutra, in which eight
persons were killed and thirty wounded.
CLoTURE was carried in the British House
of Commons on the 10th, stopping discus
sion on the Crimes bill.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake occurred
recently in Turkestan. One town was al
most entirely destroyed. One hundred and
twenty persons were killed, and 125 in
jured. Among the latter is General Fride,
Governor of the province Of Zmiretchinsk.
BETWEEN GO and 100 carpenters Of TO.
ronto, Ont. have struck for an advance